Welcome!

This project showcases our analysis of presidential campaign rhetoric in the 2018 Russian Elections. We analysed the rhetorical devices used by the candidates, as well as the topics which they discuss most commonly in their speeches and interviews.

Contributors

Richard Fulop

Richie is a 4th-year undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh studying Computer Science and Russian. On this project, he took the lead on the programming aspect of the project, and wrote a lot of the code that works behind the scenes to help analyse and understand the corpus. After graduation in Fall 2018, Richie plans to pursue a career using both his skills with language and technology.

Matt Murphy

Matt is also a 4th-year undergraduate who is pursuing a degree in Russian language and minoring in Korean language. He suggested the topic of Russian political discourse and took the lead on writing the majority of the web content for the pages in English and Russian. He plans to find a career in foreign intelligence using foreign languages.

Ian Loughney

Ian is a 4th-year undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh studying Linguistics and pursuing a certificate in Russian and Eastern European studies. He took on the design of the website on this project as well as working with Richie on the design of the critical discourse analysis. Upon graduation Ian plans to pursue a career in applied linguistics.